Shoe.



A. J. GABRIELIAN.

SHOE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 13,1907.

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SHOE

' Specification of Letters Patent Patented March 9, 1909.

Application filed April 13, 1907. Serial No. 368,008.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Avnnrs J. GABRI- ELIAN, a citizen of the United St ates, and resident of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State "of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Shoes, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like numerals on the drawings representing like parts.

My invention is a shoe having certain features of the welt type of shoe and others of the turn type of shoe, being an improvement on the invention shown in my Patent No. 821,935 of May 29, 1906.

My object is to roduce a construction having great flexibity, using a minimum amount of leather, and requiring a minimum amount of laborto construct it; while at the same time utilizin to the fullest extent and best advantage al the leather employed, etslpecially the expensive sole leather of the s 0e.

thereof the longitudinal middle of a welt strip, so that approximately half of the'welt strip projects beyond the edge of the vamp,

and the opposite half of the welt strip projects back in the opposite direction from the stitching line which joins the welt and vamp.

skived or beveled off in an opposite direction from the beveling of the welt, the welt being laid flat on this beveled portion of the sole.

which are then stitched together adjacent This makes an exceedingly flexible, durable, comfortable, and inexpensive shoe. It makes possible the laying of a much thinner sole than in my patent aforesaid, and avoids the necessity of undercutting the edge of the sole, with the consequent loss of strength and material, and avoids the necessity of the over-hanging innersole with its thick heavy middle portion of Woodley (Patent No. 423,709) and yet gives a strong, solid edge portion. Above all,.. the shoe possesses extreme comfort and flexibility, due to the elimination of all the extra portions and foreign materials usually found in a shoe, as nothing but the essentials To this end I secure to the outside 5 surface .of the vamp directly at the edgeviz. the upper, connecting welt, and sole, are required.

- Further constructional details and the advantages thereof will be pointed out more at length in the'course of the following description, taken with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which I have showna pre ferred embodiment of the invention.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a shoe, parts being broken away for clearness of illustration; Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view showing the details of construction.

The upper or vamp 1 may be of any kind desired, being herein shown as provided with a box toe 2. Close to its peripheral edges 3 the,vamp is sewed by a line of stitches 4 to the longitudinal middle of a welt strip 5. From the stitching point 4 to the inner edge 6 of the vamp the welt is skived or beveled off as indicated at Tim the general direction of the center of the sole, and the latter from of the sole, but rests obli uely thereto, the

object being to bring the s ived surface 7 as nearly as possible into the position of the adjacent portion of the foot. This is clearly shown in- Fig. 2. The welt and sole 11 are then stitched together adjacent their peripheral edges as indicated at 12.

. The sim licity and advantages of my invention wil be most clearly apparent from Fig. 2, viewing which it will be seen that the shoe hasall the simplicity and flexibility of the usual turn shoe, which has heretofore been considered feasible only for the thinner, lighter grades of womens shoes, and yet has the strength, solidity, and wearing qualities of the heavier kinds of shoes ordinarily provided for men. The sole ll'may be even thicker than usual, and yet the shoe when constructed according to my invention will still be more flexible than previously with a lighter sole, because the usual heavy innersole which ithas always been considered necessary heretofore to sew to the vamp and then fill inthe cavity of the innersole between the leather and the sole is omitted.

Yet there are'no ridges or unevenesses, but on the contrary, the interior of the shoe is smooth,'sl1apely, and comfortable. A sock lining or any other tread surface for the foot to rest upon may be provided in usual manner if desired.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by'Letters Patent, is z" A welt shoe, having its vamp sewed at its extreme edge to the longitudinal middle of a Welt strip, said vamp terminating approxilnately at said middle of the welt, and the welt projecting thence inwardly beyond said vamp edge for approximately half of its y projecting top edge of width, the inward the welt strip being beveled inwardly down to a-thin edge-beyond the vamp-edge, and

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an out-sole having its peripheral'top surface outwardly beveled, the plane under side of the welt strip being laid flat on said peri heral beveled surface of the sole and stitcl ed thereto at its outer edge about the toeart of the shoe, and said thin inner edge 0 the welt strip terminating at the u per and inner line of said sole-bevel, where i and sole afford a continuous, smooth approximately level surface for the foot.

In testimony whereof, I have name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

- AVEDIS J GAB RIELIAN.

Witnesses:

' WM.J. PIKE,

EDWARD MAXWELL.

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